THE AUSTRALIAN CYCADS 



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The species growing here is Cycas media, reported to 

 be the tallest of the cycads, Eichler's account in Engler 

 and Prantl's Die natiirlichen Pflanzenjamilien giving it 



Fig. 14. — Female plant of Cycas media, on the plantation of Mr. 

 Sydney Snell, near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. 



